Hi Bill Yes,GHC will run on your new MacBook Air. The cpu in that is Apple Silicon , the aarch64-apple-darwin platform. Older Macs run on Intel chips, the x86_64-apple-darwin platform. I'm not sure how you installed the compiler. I believe the standard way is described on https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/. Can you tell us how you installed it? Thanks George On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 8:22 AM Simon Peyton Jones < simon.peytonjones@gmail.com> wrote:

Redirecting this query to ghc-devs. Can anyone help William? Thanks!

Will GHC run on my new MacBook Air? After installing the compiler, my

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laptop said its processor was wrong for the binary distribution I chose. If there is a dmg file for MacOS 12.5.1, please please link your reply to it.

Simon

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 23:33, William McEnaney wrote:

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Dear Dr. Jones,

Will GHC run on my new MacBook Air? After installing the compiler, my laptop said its processor was wrong for the binary distribution I chose. If there is a dmg file for MacOS 12.5.1, please please link your reply to it.

Thanks for your help.

Best, Bill

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